Originally Posted by
lost_in_translation
Any noises on relaxing the UK travel testing requirements in addition to Red List potentially being removed? The situation from today is back to being totally non-sensical to me in that if you attend your 100 person UK office Christmas party where it turns out that half of the attendees had Omicron you don't subsequently need to self-isolate, just do a not very foolproof daily self-administered lateral flow, whilst someone traveling to the UK from a country with almost zero community transmission (e.g. Hong Kong) currently takes a PCR test and has to self-isolate until the result (having already done a pre-departure test a few days earlier), because, you know, they are clearly the much higher risk...
Yes, there are rumours of changes today. For the red list the suggestion is that they do not want people in prison on Christmas Day which would require action today. The testing rules may also change for the better.